Resources

Generic info

• How Lightning Works
• Wikipedia
• Lightning Labs
• lightning.network summary
• LNRoute resource overview site

Node info

• 1ML network overview, statistics, like a Lightning Network explorer
• Recksplorer, a visual network representation
• Find all explorers here

Mailing lists

• lightning-dev
• OpTech newsletter
• ION News, Get Lightning Network news, project announcements, reviews, and tutorials.

Chat

• LND Developer Slack (if the link expires, contact me)
• irc.freenode.net #lnd

Tutorials

• Setting up and Testing LND with the Testnet Lightning Faucet
• Setting up a local Lightning cluster
• How to send payments via CLI on the Lightning Network
• Using the LND web client
• Using LND gRPC client
• Integrating Lightning into a server-side web application
• How to use a Python gRPC Client with LND
• How to use a Javascript GRPC client with LND
• Setup LND and Bitcoind on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Podcasts

• The Lite Podcast (RSS)
• Episode on Lightning on Epicenter Podcast

Development

• dev.lightning.community

Books

• The (open source) Lightning Network Book: To be written in 2019, open source, Community Project, run by Rene Pickhardt, watch this for details

Videos

• Andreas Antonopoulos explains Lightning Network
• Andreas Antonopoulos on Misconceptions about Lightning Network
• Rene Pickhardt YouTube Channel Lightning Video tutorials, building Lightning App
• wikimedia Lightning media, videos and PDFs
• Elisabeth Stark on Lightning (intro)
• Lightning Network Tech Talk at Coinbase by Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja - A summary explanation of scaling blockchains with Lightning presented at Coinbase
• Network as a Directed Graph: Single-Funded Channel Network Topology by Tadge Dryja - A presentation about the practical considerations for the design of the initial Lightning Network software.
• Lightning Network Deep Dive by Laolu Osuntokun - A deep dive into the technical functionality of the Lightning Network with a "live" demo.
• Lightning Network Deep Dive at Scaling Bitcoin by Laolu Osuntokun - A technical deep dive into using and understanding Lightning

Resource Lists, Meta-lists

• Awesome list curated resources
• messari.io curated resources

Wikis

• lightningwiki.net this site
• wikiversity
• Ion Radar wiki on Lightning

Q&A, FAQ

• FAQ
• stackexchange

Libraries

Below links via LightingHood.com

• Lightning-integration] (Lightning integration testing framework)
• Lightning-charge] (A drop-in solution for accepting lightning payments in javascript)
• Lightning-charge-client-js] (JavaScript client for lightning charge)
• Lightning-charge-client-php] (PHP client for lightning-charge)
• Lightning-payencode] (QR code ready encoding for requesting lightning payments)
• Lseed] (A DNS seed for the Lightning Network)
• WooCommerce-gateway-lightning] (WooCommerce gateway for lightning payments)
• Lnrpc-client] (Javascript RPC client for LND)
• lnrpc.rb] (Ruby gRPC client gem for LND)
• In-service] (Lightning REST service)
• LightningJ] (LND integration API for Java)
• Lightning-rest] (Rest server for lightningd RPC)
• WordPress-lightning-publisher] (Lightning publisher for WordPress)
• FileBazaar] ( A system for selling files such as documents, images and videos)
• Paypercall] (Toolkit for Lightning that enables micropayments for individual API calls)
• Ifpaytt] (Allows web developers using IFTTT to request payments for service usage)
• Sitzprobe] (A plugin that sends test payments to find and deprecate channels that can’t route payments)
• jarret/raspi-uart-waveshare] (A library for interfacing with the 4.3inch UART e-Paper from Raspberry Pi 2/3 via Python3)